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Super scale requires immediate action

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
Super funds must act on scale now if they are to perform well under the Stronger Super reforms, according to a retirement head at Mercer, with forward projections a necessary outcome. Under the Stronger Super reforms, super trustees will have to determine ...

Macquarie launches EM fund

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... indices in portfolio construction. Following the increasing appetite among Australian investors to high-growth, high-cash flow companies in emerging markets, the fund employs a concentrated portfolio of 40 to 70 companies. "Investors are always looking ...

Challenger to launch new fixed income fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... pension due to negative markets movements and to prevent investors from being forced to sell depreciating assets to fund cash flow needs, Challenger said a guaranteed monthly distribution fund can help lock in cash flow required to meet living expenses ...

Strong half year results for new Challenger boss

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... product fee structures transitioning to contemporary levels," said Benari. Other results include a 10% hike in operating cash flow of $140 million and interim dividend of 7.5 cents, up 7%. Benari has been the Challenger Group's chief financial and chief ...

Lloyd new Perpetual CEO, Ryan steps down

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... activity receives the right focus. We need clear communication inside and outside the business. We need discipline around cash flow, to invest efficiently to retain business, progressively reduce costs in businesses, and to look at business that provides ...

Bonds, tailored equities and income top ETF picks

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... portfolios. "Globally, bond ETFs were far and away the outstanding ETF performer in 2011, from both a performance and cash flow perspective. Bond ETFs were the only type of ETF that achieved positive net inflows each month in 2011, and we think we'll ...

CFSGAM: REITS are a safe bet

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... reacting to volatility, if investors look at underlying earnings of most of the property companies globally, earnings and cash flow have been resilient. There hasn't been any major downturn. According to Plater, the problem has been that people are looking ...

Illiquid assets boost returns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... to illiquid assets are its member investment choice menu, likelihood of members moving between the options and member cash flow. They speculated this was likely to be why retail funds which have older members do not favour illiquid assets, though this ...

van Eyk adds UBS-HALO to the Blueprint Australian Shares Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
The addition of the UBS-HALO Australian Share Fund to van Eyk's Blueprint Australian Shares Fund is part of plans to move more of the fund into concentrated, high conviction strategies, according to the company. Head of ratings at van Eyk, Matthew Olsen ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
Twisted! This was Wall Street's reaction to the US Federal Reserve's remake of the 1961 version of US President John F. Kennedy and the then Fed's attempt to salvage America. The major US equity indices fell big time - the Dow closed 2.5% off, the S&P ...